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[[underlined]]To Beaver Lake & Juno [[/underlined]]

The country gradually becomes more arid - and we keep finding more plants of the arid region. The big yucca & Dasilirion have become common & one slope was covered with Agave lechuguilla

[[underlined]]July 18[[/underlined]] - Aneroid read 2400 at camp, at 8 A.M.  Crossed a ridge at 2500 and then descended a long series of "draws" to Beaver Lake, the head of Devils River, 3 miles above Juno.  Down ^[[to]] [[strikethrough]] 22 [[/strikethrough]] 2100 at Juno & the lake.  The top of the ridge is Upper Sonoran but down in the draws we are in pure Lower sonoran with its full set of plants & with such new species as Hesperaloe, Fouquera, Licium, [[strikethrough]] Porteria [[/strikethrough]] Guaiacums augustifolium, [[strikethrough]] Tessaria [[/strikethrough]] Bacebaris angustilifolia?  At Beaver Lake we strike five large Pecan & Live oak trees.  Our camp is under a live oak that spreads 100 feet & measures 18 feet in diameter at 4 feet from the ground. It is not over 40 feet high & forks 8 feet up but has huge horizontal branches.  A family Megascops live in it & a Melanerpes aurifrons is feeding young in a branch.

Transcription Notes:
"Dasilirion" is Dasylirion (Mexican aparagus), but transcribed as written. "Licium" is probably Lycium (nightshade), but transcribed as written.